Maryland

Every Boy Scout knows the words "Be Prepared." This motto has also driven Robert Mettee to keep the BSA in-plant a step ahead. by Bob Neubauer If everything had gone as planned, Robert Mettee might be an auto mechanic right now. But fate—and his fellow students at the Baltimore vocational technical school he attended—sent him hiking down a different trail. "I was trying to get in the automotive class, and that filled up," he recalls. "My second alternative was printing." So he signed up—and quickly discovered he had a knack for it. "I graduated at the top of my printing class," Mettee

Although he dabbled in many fields, Dan Kovalsky found his niche in printing. Now he couldn't be happier. Daniel Kovalsky didn't grow up dreaming of being a printer. But now, as supervisor of Print & Imaging Services for Constellation Energy Group in Baltimore, he wouldn't dream of doing anything else. Kovalsky, 48, was born in Johnstown, Pa. His family moved to Maryland when he was five, and he's lived there ever since. He graduated from Brooklyn Park High School at age 17 and found a job changing truck tires for Kelly-Springfield until he was 18. Once he was old enough, his father, an electrician